Auction 26
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
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Dec 11, 2021
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy
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LOT 10:
Billiard cue, in original box with 'Ernest Hemingway' plate
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Sold for: €60,000
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Billiard cue, in original box with 'Ernest Hemingway' plate
40s
Technique:
accompanied by an authentic manuscript of the writer, containing a dedication
Dimensions:
Box dimensions H 5x57x10 cm
“… to my young friend Arnaldo, in honor of his beautiful sister Ornella ”, so reads the authentic letter from E. Hemingway that accompanies the billiard cue belonging to him, given as a wager to Mr. Arnaldo Zamperetti.
Sixty years after his death (2 July 1961), to end of an adventurous, turbulent, enigmatic and intense existence, Ernest Hemingway remains one of the most influential personalities in American literature.
In addition to the writer, beyond to the journalist and war chronicler, in addition to the Nobel Prize that binds him to everyone's memory, every single event of his life has been well collected and documented by numerous biographers; the inner intolerance amplified by alcohol, the adventure in Africa as a hunter, the scars of war, the makeshift air landings, the wounds that marked him during his most difficult years.
But there is also an unreleased Ernest Hemingway.
He is the man of great charm, who has collected four wives and an unknown number of romantic relationships.
He is the Hemingway suitor and lover, sensitive to female beauty, who
in 1948 clashed with Antonio De Curtis , our Totò, in Stresa, for the much contested verdict by Miss Italia.
The mask tragicomic most representative of Italy was part of the jury of the Beauty Contest that cheered the post-war years on the ve del Verbano.
At the Regina Palace Hotel, the aesthetic canons of a femininity that no longer exists: between chaste bikinis and soft sizes, that edition won the Trieste
Fulvia Franco : 1 meter and 66 centimeters for sixty kilos of beauty, the advantage linked to belonging to a city on the border with Yugoslavia which has become "free territory" and
political endorsement of an Italy to be rebuilt .
Hemingway had landed the day before in Genoa and chose to go there, for an amarcord journey through the rooms of Des Iles Borromées, where he had set some of the pages of “Farewell to weapons ", inspired by his military experience in Italy.
It was he who, the evening before the final of the Competition,
decided to bet on the Bolognese Ornella Zamperetti, then finished second between controversy, legal disputes and indemnity claims.
In the billiard room of his hotel, between spirits and carom games, after betting on the microphones of journalists, the North American writer put his billiard cue, the one that had accompanied him, into play with the brother of the aspiring Miss Italy throughout his youth, however, betting everything on the losing choice. This event is also mentioned in the pages of Andrea Di Robilant's book:
“Autumn in Venice. Hemingway and the last muse " (Corbaccio publisher).
Bibliography:
The lot aroused the interest of many newspapers and magazines.
View the review
Technique:
accompanied by an authentic manuscript of the writer, containing a dedication
Dimensions:
Box dimensions H 5x57x10 cm
“… to my young friend Arnaldo, in honor of his beautiful sister Ornella ”, so reads the authentic letter from E. Hemingway that accompanies the billiard cue belonging to him, given as a wager to Mr. Arnaldo Zamperetti.
Sixty years after his death (2 July 1961), to end of an adventurous, turbulent, enigmatic and intense existence, Ernest Hemingway remains one of the most influential personalities in American literature.
In addition to the writer, beyond to the journalist and war chronicler, in addition to the Nobel Prize that binds him to everyone's memory, every single event of his life has been well collected and documented by numerous biographers; the inner intolerance amplified by alcohol, the adventure in Africa as a hunter, the scars of war, the makeshift air landings, the wounds that marked him during his most difficult years.
But there is also an unreleased Ernest Hemingway.
He is the man of great charm, who has collected four wives and an unknown number of romantic relationships.
He is the Hemingway suitor and lover, sensitive to female beauty, who
in 1948 clashed with Antonio De Curtis , our Totò, in Stresa, for the much contested verdict by Miss Italia.
The mask tragicomic most representative of Italy was part of the jury of the Beauty Contest that cheered the post-war years on the ve del Verbano.
At the Regina Palace Hotel, the aesthetic canons of a femininity that no longer exists: between chaste bikinis and soft sizes, that edition won the Trieste
Fulvia Franco : 1 meter and 66 centimeters for sixty kilos of beauty, the advantage linked to belonging to a city on the border with Yugoslavia which has become "free territory" and
political endorsement of an Italy to be rebuilt .
Hemingway had landed the day before in Genoa and chose to go there, for an amarcord journey through the rooms of Des Iles Borromées, where he had set some of the pages of “Farewell to weapons ", inspired by his military experience in Italy.
It was he who, the evening before the final of the Competition,
decided to bet on the Bolognese Ornella Zamperetti, then finished second between controversy, legal disputes and indemnity claims.
In the billiard room of his hotel, between spirits and carom games, after betting on the microphones of journalists, the North American writer put his billiard cue, the one that had accompanied him, into play with the brother of the aspiring Miss Italy throughout his youth, however, betting everything on the losing choice. This event is also mentioned in the pages of Andrea Di Robilant's book:
“Autumn in Venice. Hemingway and the last muse " (Corbaccio publisher).
Bibliography:
The lot aroused the interest of many newspapers and magazines.
View the review
